SALT LAKE CITY?Utah lawmakers have decided the state should have two official vegetables.

Utah representatives on Monday designated the Spanish sweet onion the state’s modern vegetable of Utah and the sugar beet the “historic state vegetable.” The vote was 56-15.

The vegetable proposal will now be sent back to the Senate, to see if the senators will sign off on the onion-beet compromise.

The original bill designated just the onion. But that didn’t sit well with sugar beet backers.

Rep. Ron Bigelow voted against the bill, stating that lawmakers designate too many state objects.